The Battle for the High Street

The Battle for the High Street

Author: Phil Hubbard

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-02-01

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1137521538

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This book analyses the social and cultural status of high streets in the age of recession and austerity. High streets are shown to have long been regarded as the heart of many communities, but have declined to a state where boarded-up and vacant retail units are a familiar sight in many British cities. The book argues that the policies deemed necessary to revive the fortunes of high streets are often thinly-veiled attacks on the tastes and cultures of the working class. Policy-makers often promote boutiques, art galleries and upmarket cafés at the expense of some of the outlets frequented by less affluent populations, including betting shops, fast food takeaways, discount stores and bargain booze outlets. Highlighting the social and cultural roles that so-called 'dying' high streets continue to play in the lives of working class and disadvantaged populations, this book provides a powerful argument against retail gentrification, and a timely analysis of class conflict in austerity Britain. It will be of great interest to scholars of geography, social policy and cultural studies.


Battle for Bed-Stuy

Battle for Bed-Stuy

Author: Michael Woodsworth

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2016-06-06

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0674545060

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In the 1960s Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood was labeled America’s largest ghetto. But its brownstones housed a coterie of black professionals intent on bringing order and hope to the community. In telling their story Michael Woodsworth reinterprets the War on Poverty by revealing its roots in local activism and policy experiments.


Civil War Battlefields

Civil War Battlefields

Author: David J. Eicher

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications

Published: 2005-03-14

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1589791819

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This new edition of a popular travel guide provides a detailed accurate and modern approach to touring these national treasures.


The Battle for Room 314

The Battle for Room 314

Author: Ed Boland

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Published: 2016-02-09

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 145556060X

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In this insightfully honest and moving memoir about the realities of teaching in an inner-city school, Ed Boland "smashes the dangerous myth of the hero-teacher [and] shows us how high the stakes are for our most vulnerable students" (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black). In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable to help them. Freddy runs a drug ring for his incarcerated brother; Nee-cole is homeschooled on the subway by her brilliant homeless mother; Byron's Ivy League dream is dashed because he is undocumented. In the end, Boland isn't hoisted on his students' shoulders and no one passes AP anything. This is no urban fairy tale of at-risk kids saved by a Hollywood hero, but a searing indictment of schools that claim to be progressive but still fail their students. Told with compassion, humor, and a keen eye, Boland's story is sure to ignite debate about the future of American education and attempts to reform it.


The Face of Battle

The Face of Battle

Author: John Keegan

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 1983-01-27

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 1440673993

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John Keegan's groundbreaking portrayal of the common soldier in the heat of battle -- a masterpiece that explores the physical and mental aspects of warfare The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the "point of maximum danger." Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions, John Keegan has written what is probably the definitive model for military historians. And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles representative of three different time periods, he manages to convey what the experience of combat meant for the participants, whether they were facing the arrow cloud at the battle of Agincourt, the musket balls at Waterloo, or the steel rain of the Somme. The Face of Battle is a companion volume to John Keegan's classic study of the individual soldier, The Mask of Command: together they form a masterpiece of military and human history.


Around Battle Through Time

Around Battle Through Time

Author: Nathan Dylan Goodwin

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2012-10-15

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1445626578

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This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Battle has changed and developed over the last century


Time Out Kent & Sussex

Time Out Kent & Sussex

Author: Daniel Neilson

Publisher: Time Out Guides

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1846702399

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Kent and Sussex are popular counties - to live in and to visit, whether on a day-trip or on a longer holiday. This title includes what you need to know about these popular counties, organised by area and clearly mapped.


Village Walks in Britain

Village Walks in Britain

Author: Automobile Association (Great Britain)

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780393315028

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Here are short tours--most take a half-hour to one or two hours--of 165 villages of unusual interest, beauty, and charm.